NEW YORK, March 27.—One hundred and forty-one persons are dead as a result of the fire which on Saturday afternoon swept the three upper floors of the factory loft building at the northwest corner of Washington place and Greene street. More than three-quarters of this number are women and girls, who were employed in the Triangle Shirt Waist factory, where the fire originated.—Boston Transcript.
(b) List of Dead.—When the number of dead or injured reaches any very significant figure it is customary to make a table of dead and injured. This table is usually set into the story close after the lead, but very often the list is put in a "box" and slipped in above the story. In writing the story, however, the reporter disregards the table and begins his lead as if there were no table: e.g., "Twelve firemen were killed and fourteen injured in a fire——" The list usually gives the name, address (or some other identification), and the nature of the injury, thus:
Capt. Frank Makal, Engine Co. No. 4, cut by glass.
Acting Captain W. E. Brown, fire boat No. 23, cut by glass.
Peter Ryan, No. 15, flying glass.—Milwaukee Free Press.
Or:
The Dead:
Mrs. Charles Smith, 14 W. Gorham street.
John Johnson, 1193 Chatham street.